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7 May, 1507 – After the Temple is done, I order the Workshop for Tanjore
1 June – We maxed relaions with Gujarat
1 August – This is a big one too
Admin Tech 7 – Noble Republic, and we get another Group of Ideas
So now which group intrigues me?
I cannot pick another military idea right now. No more than 50% of my ideas can be in the same tech group.
Options that I like:
Dip Idea – Trade Ideas. Right now we make, monthly: 8.2 gold taxes, 4.37 gold production and 5.69 gold trade. That’s from Ceylon and Goa trade. It makes sense to improve that.
Trade Ideas would give me:
+10% Trade Power
Another Trader
+25% Trade Range
+10% trade efficiency
Another Trader
+25% trade steering and +20% caravan power
+10% National Trade Income
And when all done - +1 trader
So if I do this set of ideas, I’ll finish with 5 merchants, and lots of bonuses to trade. Now I don’t use Dip power much, so I’d rather have a DIP idea than a Admin one .
Other good Dip options include:
Influence – It doesn’t start nicely, but there are some great ones later one - -25% dip annex cost, -20% aggressive expansion (aka badboy), and if finished unjustified demands in war are at -50% hit.
For a warmonger like me, that’s pretty solid, but you have to get deep before you get anything of value.
Other DIP? Espionage? Nothing else.
Now we could go Administrative and take Economic Ideas. That’s about it too.
I’ll do Trade. I think it’s the obvious ideas
12 Oct – Jaunpur and Malwa just lost a major war with Delhi.
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